Ask your workforce data a question. Get an answer, not a spreadsheet.
Quick overview
Time Doctor workforce data now works inside Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini
Most AI tools are good at reasoning and bad at knowing what’s actually happening in your business. Ask Claude or ChatGPT how your team’s hours compare to what payroll paid out last week, and it has nothing to work with. The data lives in Time Doctor, in a spreadsheet export, or in someone’s head.
That gap is what the Time Doctor MCP closes.
The Time Doctor MCP is a Model Context Protocol connection that gives compatible AI tools, including Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini, direct access to your Time Doctor workforce data. Once it’s connected, you can ask a question in plain language instead of exporting a report and building the analysis yourself.
It’s included on every Time Doctor plan at no extra cost. Existing customers can connect it in about a minute from Settings, then AI Connections.
Why this matters now
MCP is becoming the standard way AI tools connect to the systems that hold real business data, instead of working from what a user manually pastes in or from general knowledge. For workforce data specifically, that’s a meaningful shift. Attendance, hours, productivity, and cost data are scattered across time tracking, payroll, and project systems, and reconciling them has always meant pulling multiple reports and comparing them by hand.
Time Doctor MCP brings your Time Doctor data, attendance, hours, productivity, activity, meetings, and leave, directly into the AI tool you’re already using. You’re not exporting a report and reformatting it for ChatGPT. You ask the question, and the AI works with the data directly.
The same idea extends further when you connect other systems too. If your payroll or CRM tool has its own MCP connection active in the same AI client, you can ask questions that span both, without manually pulling reports from each system and comparing them yourself.
What it brings into your AI tools
The MCP makes six categories of Time Doctor data available to a connected AI client:
- Attendance and schedules, to compare planned time against what was actually worked
- Hours worked, across teams, projects, clients, and time periods
- Productivity and activity, for performance context
- Web and app usage, to see where time is going
- Meeting time, factored into capacity and workload analysis
- Scheduled leave, factored into staffing and capacity planning
What this looks like in practice
A few examples of what this looks like in practice. The report and summary questions work from Time Doctor data alone. The payroll and revenue comparisons work once your payroll or CRM tool’s own MCP connection is active alongside Time Doctor’s:
Example Questions you can ask your AI Tool:
Q: “Compare hours spent on each client with revenue and flag accounts where the ratio is getting worse.” (This needs your CRM or revenue source connected too)
Q: “Build a weekly manager report for [team]: tracked, active, idle, top apps. Keep this format every week.” (Time Doctor data only)
Q: “Compare Time Doctor tracked hours with our payroll hours for last week. Where do they disagree?” (needs your payroll source connected too)
Ismael Jaquez, Payroll Team Lead at HouseCalls Home Care, described the shift this way:
“Instead of spending a significant amount of time downloading and organizing multiple reports, I can use AI to query the data directly, answer specific operational questions, and add context behind the numbers much faster. It genuinely felt like a glimpse of the future.”
How it handles trust and access
The AI works with summarized workforce data, and you control who can connect it. Owners, admins, and managers on any plan can connect the MCP, and admins can enable or disable it company-wide or for individual users. The connection is read-only: it retrieves data to answer questions, and it can’t change anything in your account. It’s built on the same security standards as the rest of Time Doctor, including ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type 2, GDPR, and HIPAA.
Getting started
If you’re already a Time Doctor customer, connect the Time Doctor MCP from Settings and start asking your AI tool the question you’d normally build a report to answer. If you’re not yet a customer, this is workforce data built to work with the AI tools your team already uses, from day one. Try it for free.
Frequently asked questions(FAQs)
Time Doctor is workforce visibility software that helps leaders see what their distributed team is working on, validate the process and records behind every hour they pay for, and balance workloads across people and projects, with AI that turns numbers they can trust into performance they can predict, plan and manage.
MCP stands for Model Context Protocol. It’s an open standard that lets AI tools like Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini connect to live data from external platforms. With Time Doctor MCP, that means you can ask plain-language questions about your workforce data and get instant answers inside your AI tool.
The Time Doctor MCP lets compatible AI tools work with relevant Time Doctor workforce data. Once connected, you can ask workforce questions in plain language instead of exporting Time Doctor reports and preparing the analysis manually.
Time Doctor MCP currently connects to Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini. More MCP connections are planned.
Yes. Time Doctor MCP uses read-only access, role-scoped permissions, and metadata-only analysis. No sensitive content is exposed, written to, or edited.
Access is available to owners, admins, and managers. Role-scoped permissions ensure each user sees only the data relevant to their level of access.
